Remaining meat companies, including industry leader Tyson, are intent on rebuilding balance sheets and navigating the highs and lows of seasonal demand, such as the Thanksgiving bonanza for turkey producers this week and the peak for chicken-wing suppliers during the March Madness college-basketball tournament.

Beginning cooks can choose what looks good and go with Moose's marinade recommendations, while chicken-wing aficionados can get creative and mix and match ingredients, using Moose's recipes as a guideline.

Always culinarily edgy -- which is good in the sense of open-mindedness but bad in the sense of eating endangered species such as bluefin tuna and whales -- Japan is the country that produces such intriguing ice-cream (aisu) flavors as eel, crab, octopus, wasabi, soy sauce, chicken-wing, fermented soybean (natto aisu), horsemeat (basashi aisu) and ... well, whale.

People watching the Super Bowl who saw how much they had already eaten -- in this case, leftover chicken-wing bones -- ate 27 percent less than people who had no such environmental cues, finds a new Cornell study.